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"The more curious we are about a topic, the easier it is to learn information about that topic. New research provides insights into what happens in our brains when curiosity is piqued. The findings could help scientists find ways to enhance overall learning and memory in both healthy individuals and those with neurological conditions."

Do your students realize how vulnerable they are, when using the Internet and social media? Are you teaching them appropriate use? The guest post below, featuring the video above, is an excellent resource to share with students.

Good example of how to use Ipad for class workflow

Hey Mark Thanks for the article. It is very informative. Mike

Crap Detection 101: How to tell accurate information from inaccurate information, misinformation, and disinformation.

you can now insert images into your Google Forms.

"This is a brief video explaining how to use twitter in a elementary classroom."

"From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the bestselling A Whole New Mind, comes a paradigm-shattering look at what truly motivates us and how we can use that knowledge to work smarter and live better."

Did you know you can import your PowerPoint presentations into Prezi? Watch this video to find out how.

The purpose behind this series is to make  teachers and educators aware of the potential of this free service.

A list of brief tutorials (audio & video) on how to use, navigate and manage wikispaces wikis.

Here are some of my favorite tips shared by Russell at the 2012 Investigative Reporters and Editors conference. Some of these techniques are powerful but obscure; others are well-known but not fully understood by everyone.

"In cooperative learning, students work together, think together and plan together using a variety of group structures designed along an instructional path. This dynamic learning model breaks with the dusty forms of frontal teaching that often create classrooms of "lonesome togetherness" -- students who may sit together but live worlds apart. Cooperative learning creates what Daniel Goleman calls "cognitive empathy," a mind-to-mind sense of how another person's thinking works. The better we understand others, the better we know them -- pointing toward (among other virtues) greater trust, appreciation and generosity. "